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In The Shadow of Gold Mountain
Karen Cho

In The Shadow of Gold Mountain

  • Documentary
  • History
RELEASE

2004-11-07

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

43 min

Description

Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1947. Through a combination of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations.